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Why Are Kids No Longer Into Cars & Racing? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  As old Herman Munster would say, it's a beautiful day trying to
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  rain just a little bit. They're saying just some
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  sprinkles gonna roll on by. Saint Louis should be no problem
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  for Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL on Friday night.
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  And of course we got Pevely with the World of Outlaws on Friday
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  night with the B mods and then Saturday with our A mods.
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  So I'll see you this Friday at Tri-City Speedway, Granite City,
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  IL and then of course going to race about 15 minutes down the
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  road here at Pevely, Missouri. Kenny Schrader said there's a
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  new name. It is Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park. Got to put put the word park on
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  the end of it. So for all my friends, Herman
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  Schrader comes out today is it's out already.
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  Herman Schrader comes out already.
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  Speaking of Kenny Schrader, today's topic.
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  We would discuss, you know, situations in NASCAR or just, we
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  would just discuss situations and, and Kenny, uh, shred, he'd
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  say, you know, that's just the way it is harm times change and
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  he's right. And of course we all know that.
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  But it made me think this morning, when was the last time
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  you saw, umm, a teenager or a 20 year old kid love racing.
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  Now respond right here. I go to the racetrack more than
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  you do, you know that. And when you see a young kid
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  working on a race car, the whole garage area goes, what's that
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  kid's name? Why is he, why does he like
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  racing now? Now you're going to respond
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  that, you know, you know, Joe and Bob and Bill's got a kid,
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  but I'm talking when, when was the last time you saw a kid
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  really enthusiastic? I mean, when you, when you look
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  at these compact cars, you know, they're my God, that class.
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  They've got these things light, they're buying headers for em.
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  They're they're dying on em. But even the compact Hey, Kenny,
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  get out of your mouth. OK, Herman, when you look at
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  these compact cars, it, it's made-up of grown men, uh,
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  middle-aged men. I really believe that yes, times
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  change, but here's my thought process.
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  I'm going to dig in the well a little bit means I'm going to
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  dig deep on this one, but I, I really feel like I'm right back
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  in my day. That's my, I think it's going to
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  be my joke all year long, everybody 2025 since you all
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  always made fun of you know, I'm proud of my brother.
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  So it whenever I would start outgoing, you know, my brother
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  Rusty, you all would chime in. Oh, my brother Rusty, huh, Like
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  I'm not supposed to be proud of my brother.
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  I I guess none of you are allowed to be proud of your
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  family too. Now the new one is, you know,
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  when I raced back in my day, used to go up to that shop right
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  there and pull your vehicle in there.
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  And hell, you know, the vehicles set high enough that sometimes
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  if you were skinny like me, you could roll underneath there and
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  you could grab a nine sixteenths wrench or whatever it was and
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  metric wrench, whatever it was. And you you could pull the oil
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  pan bolt and oil start coming out and you take the oil filter
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  out. You put a new oil filter in.
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  You put the plug back in. Then you roll around to the top.
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  You open the hood up and you'd put yourself in, you know,
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  however many quarts it took, and you change the oil.
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  It was that easy. Then, you know, if you were
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  spunky, you pull the air cleaner off.
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  And while the air cleaner was off, you pulled the spark plug
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  wires off and you put new plugs in.
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  And then you put the plug wires back on.
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  And before you put the air cleaner back on, you put a new
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  air cleaner on it. And my friends, that was called
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  service. You just serviced your vehicle.
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  You did an oil change, put plugs on it.
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  Sometimes you might put a new rotor button, rotor cap, plug
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  wires. And you felt good about
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  yourself. You felt really good about
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  yourself. And that right there, when they
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  quit doing that, that's when we lost the kids.
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  Nowadays, if I need anything done to my car, I can't do it.
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  I got to call my buddy Joe Rudy up at AL's Auto Service.
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  Joe's the real deal. He's a great mechanic.
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  But I'll tell you what, I'll go up to AL's Auto Service, I'll go
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  up to Joe Rudy's place and he'll lift that baby up.
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  And I, and I'm like this, my jaw's dropping.
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  I'm like, I'm like, Joe, where did you get those tools?
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  Or Herman? I got, I mean he got a half
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  $1,000,000 in tools in these tool boxes.
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  I know vehicles that you got to Jack up the left front, take the
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  left front tire off 'cause the can oil filters up in the wheel
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  well. One of those, you know, straight
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  sixes or whatever they are 4 cylinders.
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  Excuse me, once again, I know you know everything.
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  OK, so respond right here. What's some of the goofiest
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  thing you've seen on these cars Nowadays?
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  There's no such thing as these kids getting involved in the
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  cars because you got to have $500,000 worth of tools.
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  Joe was changing a what was it? I maybe a little fuel filter.
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  I don't know what he was doing, but he had this goofy ass tool.
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  I'm like, what in the hell is that?
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  The car companies, The car companies have taken the kids
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  right out of these cars. That, my friends, is one reason
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  that kids don't get involved in cars anymore.
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  Hell, look at the NASCAR Cup cars nowadays.
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  If, if a car blows a motor, if one of those next Gen. cars
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  blows a motor, they come in, they take a frigging computer,
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  plug it in and they tell you what happened to it used to be
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  used to be like, let me get this motor apart and I'll tell you
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  what happened. Now that's, that's a good thing.
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  Another reason that they took the kids right out of these cars
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  is because they started making better oil.
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  I remember Brittany, my daughter, she had a car that it
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  said change oil every 10,000 miles.
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  It was a BMW. That's another story for another
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  day. But brace, basically Brittany
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  had no idea what the cost of a vehicle was.
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  I chewed her ass out. I said you don't deserve
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  anything that expensive. My oldest daughter Brooke said,
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  Dad, dad, calm down. Brittany doesn't know that a BMW
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  is an expensive car. It's her initials, Brittany
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  Marie Wallace. I said, oh, OK, I get it.
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  But when we bought that BMW, it said right there, change your
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  oil every 10,000 miles. We love changing our oil every
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  3000 miles. Except here's the problem, you
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  don't need to change your oil every 3000 miles anymore because
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  the oil like Mobil one, Mobil one oil, hell, that stuff would
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  go 10,000 miles all night long. The oil nowadays, I mean we're
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  still bad on our I know all my buddies around the local area,
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  they they're changing their oil in their race car every four
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  races. Guys, that's 60 laps 8020406080
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  you you can run your The only reason we change oil on a dirt
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  car is because of all the dust We're afraid that might get by
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  the air cleaner and get our oil dirty.
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  The only reason we change oil in dirt cars so much is because
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  we're afraid the dust will get through the air cleaner and make
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  our oil dirty. But the viscosity, say it with
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  me children viscosity, the oil, the Lube Ness, the Lube Lube
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  Ness, the slipperiness, it stays in the oil nowadays.
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  So for all these reasons, kids are out of racing because you
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  you cannot work on the passenger car anymore.
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  Now, some of you Drifters, you change your wheels, you put your
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  Oklahoma tires on, you go out and go, you know, put some cool
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  headlights on that you can buy at jags.com.
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  By the way, if you want to fix your hot rod up, go to jags.com.
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  Met a lady last night, I was wearing my Jags shirt and she
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  goes, oh, my son just bought a transmission for his 2002
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  Camaro. I said, oh, I love Camaros,
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  they're awesome. You won't see them around
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  anymore 'cause they got rid of them.
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  So respond right here. Is that what caused the young
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  kids to get out of racing so much?
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  I mean, I know you're going to try to go against me.
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  I get it because that's your job to go against me.
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  You just don't see kids in the pits anymore.
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  If you see a 24 year old kid that loves NASCAR, show me put
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  his picture right here. And I know there's a lot of them
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  out there, but for the most part those days are over.
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  Respond right here. You're supposed to respond.
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  You're going to tell me, has the car technology taking the kids
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  out of racing? Yes or no?
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  I think so. I just told you my reason.
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  All right, everybody have a beautiful Wednesday.